Strategy 2023 Season review

[Ironhawk]

As most would know, I ran the Combined team this year and we had a fairly strong year, finishing in 4642 overall. There were a couple of really poor trades in there which cost us, along with copping a fair chunk of bad luck throughout the season, so that was a really great result and I'm very appreciative to everyone who contributed. Rather than rehashing this, I'll just link to the topic for anyone who wants to follow it in detail:

https://supercoachscores.com/threads/afl-sc-2023-combined-scs-team.5037/

I also created an unofficial team which I ran throughout the season on a spreadsheet. This was a mix of what I would have done if I was running my own team this year with a bunch of fun picks in there as well purely because it wasn't an official team. This would have ended up around 14,500th if I had of entered it, with a final score of 53,905. I started with way too many mid pricers and ran out of trades in Rd 17 - sounds quite standard for most of my seasons. I don't think I copped many if any donuts, despite having basically zero bench cover at times, but some of the scores I did have to take were not great.

Final team:
Dawson, Stewart, Sinclair, Lloyd, Day, Weddle (Daicos, Gould)
Laird, Bontempelli, Green, Neale, Merrett, Pendlebury, Mills, Cincotta (Davies-Uniacke, Sharp, Constable)
Marshall, Briggs (Madden)
Dunkley, Gulden, Butters, Rozee, Taranto, Keays (Maric, Phillipou)

 

[Shannon]

Thought I’d post a bit of a review

final rank: 7th

Went into the season a bit disappointed after dropping 2k ranks in the last 4 weeks last year to end 3k following my 42nd the year before.

starting team this year put me in a very nice spot as I had a good mix of good picks and enough picks to trade out to pick up nessecary players, which is very important I found out after having a very strong start team last year (rank 100 after rnd 2) but couldn’t trade in some must haves as no one was screaming to be traded out

Posted a trade breakdown in rnd 24 teams and discussion and did notice myself that there weren’t many insane trades just barely any horror issues

Captains played a big part in my rank this year, ended up with an average of just below 140 including no captains below 100

Am very happy with how the season went especially with how lucky I got late avoiding many injuries all season.

Am happy the season is done as I do tend to spend way to much time on SC and need some time to focus on my studies

Happy to answer questions or anything, mind still needs it’s SC fix

Thanks everyone

Many congrats on an awesome season mate, very well done 👏

I would love to see your starting side & what you regard as your best trades throughout the season 👍

 

[warewolves]

The 2023 SC champ was Oozin Sauce (OS) and his winning margin was just 80 pts.

I have done a bit of analysis on the way the winner navigated the season. To do this I have heavily relied on the work done by @Beg2Differ who put up the data in another thread – here. I have made a couple of slight mods to his data-panel to suit my analysis so I am re-posting the details again ...



I must also preface my comments by the fact that I didn’t make it into the top 10K, so let’s just say my comments are hardly expert opinion.

A – The most interesting thing to me is that OS didn’t do anything that you would say was from left-field. If you look thru his list of players, they are all the ones that have been frequently discussed here on SCS this year. The only player of note in his line-up that I reckon could be classed as a POD would be Noah Anderson (traded in R7 and averaged 97 to the end) who was in 12% of teams.

B – There was close to nil tolerance in terms of carrying injured players. Oliver was traded out immediately in R11 and the same for Dunkley(R18), Stewart(R2), Steele(R3), Sicily(R15) and several others.

C – OS made extensive use of the flexibility afforded by DPP classifications. On the charts above you can see I have annotated cases were used in 2 positions at various stages with dark squares and labelled DEF, MID, FWD, RUC. Eg. Jack Ziebell is shown as Defender 11, but in rounds 3-5 his score was included with the Forwards (see Forward 9). By my count there were 16 players that were used in multiple positions.

D – The starting line-up was a conventional G&R squad made up of really popular picks. The only dinki-di mid-pricer was Hopper ($332K) others at the margins were Gulden ($472K) and Flanders ($256K).

I think I had 18 of his starters and after correction trades (before price changes) we had 24 players in common.

These players from the starting squad were there at R24 – Sicily & Stewart were traded out then returned later.


E – Trading

Hard to generalise across the 36 trades but some thoughts..

• Traded fairly aggressively – all Boosts used by R11 and only 4 left after R17
• Seemed to be a bit lucky with his timing, in that incoming players did especially well. Some scores from players in their first game for OS – Ridley (R15/137), Anderson (R8/189), Humphrey (R10/101), Neale (R11/122), Petracca (R15/121), Fyfe (R13/96)

F – His Captain scores averaged 133. I have highlighted the Captain in each round by a red outline box. The round-by-round values are also shown at the foot of the table. Only 7 players were used – Bont (9 times), Oliver (4), English (4), Dunkley (2), Merrett (2), Sicily (2) & Steele (1)

G – Obviously OS hardly put a foot wrong, but the nasty footy gods didn’t miss him completely. These seem to be the heaviest hits on his team.

• Stewart going down in R1 – See player D2
• Jack Steele going down in R2 (M3)
• Trading in Miller in R6 (M15)
• Wasted trade on Docherty in R22 (M31)

H – This point is picking up on my earlier comments in this thread – See Post #6

Near the foot of the data-panel I have added some rows tracking the winners progress across the season. After a dodgy first round, OS was well in the hunt after round 3. He was into the top 1,000 by round 5 and the top 100 by round 8. A poor score in round 6 saw him fall 759 points behind the progress leader and that was his biggest deficit.

That gap is a little more than I was expecting, but I am still inclined to think if you fell say 1,000 points behind at some point, its curtains.

Across the byes OS went up in the rankings from 19 to 8 but didn’t get any closer to the leader.

 

[Darkie]

The 2023 SC champ was Oozin Sauce (OS) and his winning margin was just 80 pts.

I have done a bit of analysis on the way the winner navigated the season. To do this I have heavily relied on the work done by @Beg2Differ who put up the data in another thread – here. I have made a couple of slight mods to his data-panel to suit my analysis so I am re-posting the details again ...
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I must also preface my comments by the fact that I didn’t make it into the top 10K, so let’s just say my comments are hardly expert opinion.

A – The most interesting thing to me is that OS didn’t do anything that you would say was from left-field. If you look thru his list of players, they are all the ones that have been frequently discussed here on SCS this year. The only player of note in his line-up that I reckon could be classed as a POD would be Noah Anderson (traded in R7 and averaged 97 to the end) who was in 12% of teams.

B – There was close to nil tolerance in terms of carrying injured players. Oliver was traded out immediately in R11 and the same for Dunkley(R18), Stewart(R2), Steele(R3), Sicily(R15) and several others.

C – OS made extensive use of the flexibility afforded by DPP classifications. On the charts above you can see I have annotated cases were used in 2 positions at various stages with dark squares and labelled DEF, MID, FWD, RUC. Eg. Jack Ziebell is shown as Defender 11, but in rounds 3-5 his score was included with the Forwards (see Forward 9). By my count there were 16 players that were used in multiple positions.

D – The starting line-up was a conventional G&R squad made up of really popular picks. The only dinki-di mid-pricer was Hopper ($332K) others at the margins were Gulden ($472K) and Flanders ($256K).

I think I had 18 of his starters and after correction trades (before price changes) we had 24 players in common.

These players from the starting squad were there at R24 – Sicily & Stewart were traded out then returned later.
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E – Trading

Hard to generalise across the 36 trades but some thoughts..

• Traded fairly aggressively – all Boosts used by R11 and only 4 left after R17
• Seemed to be a bit lucky with his timing, in that incoming players did especially well. Some scores from players in their first game for OS – Ridley (R15/137), Anderson (R8/189), Humphrey (R10/101), Neale (R11/122), Petracca (R15/121), Fyfe (R13/96)

F – His Captain scores averaged 133. I have highlighted the Captain in each round by a red outline box. The round-by-round values are also shown at the foot of the table. Only 7 players were used – Bont (9 times), Oliver (4), English (4), Dunkley (2), Merrett (2), Sicily (2) & Steele (1)

G – Obviously OS hardly put a foot wrong, but the nasty footy gods didn’t miss him completely. These seem to be the heaviest hits on his team.

• Stewart going down in R1 – See player D2
• Jack Steele going down in R2 (M3)
• Trading in Miller in R6 (M15)
• Wasted trade on Docherty in R22 (M31)

H – This point is picking up on my earlier comments in this thread – See Post #6

Near the foot of the data-panel I have added some rows tracking the winners progress across the season. After a dodgy first round, OS was well in the hunt after round 3. He was into the top 1,000 by round 5 and the top 100 by round 8. A poor score in round 6 saw him fall 759 points behind the progress leader and that was his biggest deficit.

That gap is a little more than I was expecting, but I am still inclined to think if you fell say 1,000 points behind at some point, its curtains.

Across the byes OS went up in the rankings from 19 to 8 but didn’t get any closer to the leader.

Excellent write-up - thanks for sharing!